This is KZSU, Stanford.

Welcome to Entitle Opinions. My name is Robert Harrison, and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.

Any new stand will provide an abundance of empirical evidence for the Christian doctrine of original sin.

As Baudelaire put it, I quote,

it's impossible to glance through any newspaper without finding the most frightful traces of human perversity. Every newspaper is a tissue of horrors.

Wars, crimes, thefts, letcheries, tortures, the evil deeds of princes, of nations,

of private individuals, an orgy of universal atrocity.

In American papers, like the New York Times, things get even more perverse,

with full-page ads for luxury items interspersed into the Chronicle of Human Depravity,

the blank eyes of Ponzi young women staring at you with diamonds from hellish African

minds flashing on their fingers. If you think this has more to do with the degradation of the

modern metropolis than with human nature as such, let's board a train in London and leave the city behind.

Here's Sherlock Holmes on the lovely landscapes of rural England.

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London

do not present a more dreadful record of sin than

does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

You look at these scattered houses and you are impressed by their beauty.

I look at them and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity

with which crime may be committed there.

The impunity with which crimes are committed, that is the devastation, this impunity

for acts committed not only by criminals, but also by those who make the laws, abuse the laws, send nations to war,

decide on policies, or perpetrate crimes against nature in the name of development.

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